Word: owed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...owe the French Government unbounded thanks for its assistance to our R. O. T. C. last year; we are doubly grateful for its kindness in sending us Lieutenant Morize. In so doing the French are showing that they expect much of us; our only way to thank them is by cooperating heart and soul...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...parade which General Joffre will review. Those men who are not required to report until the 14th will have ample opportunity to do so. It is unnecessary there to point out that all men who are not physically prevented from presence in their place in line then owe it as their first and simple duty to be there. That is due in justice to the Commandant of the Corps, whose months of effort will culminate, in the minds of the public, in this open display; in duty to the Corps, whose success is the success of each of its members...
...time when many ties which have been close are severed to know that the oldest and the strongest bonds remain. The messages received yesterday by President Lowell from the heads of an old English and an historic French university remind us at this hour of the debt we owe to other peoples, and to older civilizations...
America has her own individual civilization in the making. Yet the foundations of that civilization are laid deep in France and England. The debt we owe them may not be lightly cast aside. It is for their kind of civilization that the Allies are fighting. It is for our civilization...